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Assessing the risks related to the project
To this end, the Chaudière-Appalaches and the Capitale-Nationale regions have
already had for several years an emergency measures plan, and the pre-hospital
emergency services are closely associated with every link of the intervention chain,
including the triggering of an alarm for an extreme situation. These plans are currently
being reviewed and their update is due shortly. Moreover, for the Chaudière-
Appalaches region, the emergency network’s response capacity could be adjusted for
the arrival of a new industry east of Lévis, even if this industry presented particular
risks:
The fact that the planned terminal’s location is not very far from Expressway 20
and Highway 132, both major road arteries, represents a facilitating factor in
terms of emergency responses. Moreover, the Agence de la santé et des services
sociaux de la Chaudière-Appalaches has already finalized some agreements with
hospitals in the Capitale-Nationale region, including the Centre hospitalier de
l’Enfant-Jésus regarding serious burn victims and trauma cases.
(DM602, p. 57)
The Capitale-Nationale region also has a response structure within its health mission,
to cover its territory. However, the situation of île d’Orléans is particular, because of
longer response time, as there are neither ambulance attendants nor first responders
on the island, and also considering the island’s sole access to it. In this respect, both
agencies believed that:
[…] if the Rabaska project is completed, then the health mission will have to
assess more precisely how the emergency teams will be able to assist île
d’Orléans citizens, and provide, with other missions and their adjoining
collaborators, for a plan that can meet the specific aspects of identified risks.
(Ibid.)
♦ Finding — The Panel notes that the ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux will
assess the particular situation of île d’Orléans with respect to its emergency needs if
the project is completed.
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